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Chernobyl S01E02 Please Remain Calm FULL REACTION

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AnGeLuS

All the firefighters' clothing is still in the hospital basement and is highly radioactive. They showed it in a documentary once. It's crazy.

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It's important to understand when they talk about "explain how an RBMK reactor explodes" is that at the time it was assumed it was impossible for an RBMK reactor to explode. Without spoiler, this will be explained later, but for context in these episodes, the people saying it's impossible for it to have exploded truly believed it was impossible for it to have exploded.

Bradley Weeks

It's sad and frustrating to see leaders and people in power not wanting to listen to the experts. Thankfully that doesn't happen in today's world.🙄

Deathhead

I feel you get the series better if you understand what radiation is, so I'll try to explain what I understood about it if you are interested. Also let me say that I get this from multiple sources, i didn't just hear or read it once and that's it. So certain elements in nature (or some variation of elements(isotopes)) are unstable, so people figured at some point that if you hit such an unstable element with neutrons in just the right way, it will cause it to split and give off a lot of energy(all this is based on Einstein's E = mc^2). Unstable elements are called radioactive, because they want to become stable elements and they do that by emitting radiation(particles or nuclei). There are 3 types of radiation, Alpha where the element emits a helium nucleus, Beta where the element emits an Electron or Gama where it emits a Photon(same as light but way more powerful, radioactive Photons start with the third type of ultraviolet light, then x-ray is more radioactive and then Gama is the most radioactive). So, stable elements, emit radiation and then turn into other elements, the faster a radioactive element becomes something else, the more radioactive and dangerous it is, the time it takes for half the atoms of a radioactive element to turn into another is called half-life. Returning to the types of radiation, Alpha is the worst, but it's a nucleus so it's big and heavy and it can be stopped by the skin(so only dangerous if ingested), Beta is lighter and less powerfull and can be stoped by a thin sheet of aluminium and Gama even less powerfull but passes through almost anything(you generaly block it with lead), neutrons are also emitted but mostly when the reactor is active and a bit after and it's stopped/slowed by concrete/water. Also just because some place is radioactive it doesn't mean you will instantly get ill or die, it depends on how powerfull the radiation source is, how much shielding you have, type of radiation and how much time you spent in the presence of the source. We all get iradiated every day, there is radiation in every environment(again part of the ultraviolet spectrum is mildly radioactive, that's why you use sun screen), but nature is so mildly radioactive that you won't have adverse consequences. Also, on the topic of adverse consequences, radiation makes people sick when the particles are powerfull and numerous enough to hit our DNA and destroy it causing either mutations or celular damage, but again, the radiation source needs to be powerfull, the risk grows with how much time you spend in its presence and how close you are. Also, what is not explained in the show is that the most dangerous thing is ingesting the particles from the reactor and getting iradiated by them from the inside. Well, sorry for the long post, I hope this is interesting though.

Deathhead

The Helicopter crashed because it hit the cables from the crane(you can see the tip of the crane falling) not because of radiation, they told them to not go into the smoke because inhaling any of it would be deadly not because it would fry the helicopter(which is not possible since the essential parts that make it fly are mechanical). Also remember this is a docu-drama, not documentary so it has some dramatization though as far as i understand it is like 80-90% accurate, but there are some contested things, the impact of the 2nd explosion, the one the divers try to prevent here is one of them, some say the impact is exagerated in its presentation here, but maybe they did not know all the facts, the other 3 reactors(the last one ceased to produce power in the year 2000) being so close to a lot of water exploding is surely problematic. The divers were certainly heroes. Other things that i think were exagerated(but i don't have concrete proof for this one) is how fast the people started bleeding(like the guy holding the door to the reactor, who is still alive btw) and how fast that forest turned red. Also they say the people that were watching the fire from the bridge all died but that is an urban myth and not true.

Reavezz

YESSS I NEED MORE QUICKER

Reavezz

If it’ll be explained later then why not let them just discover that info on their own like the rest of us? Kinda defeats the purpose of the show waiting to explain that

Reavezz

Ikr lol Biden totally listened to all the experts on what to do and not to do about many things during his 4 years that got a lot of people killed (he didn’t listen)

Michael Celia

Stellan Skarsgaard's performance in this episode particularly is amazing...how he goes from a "pig-headed" bureaucrat who's just towing the party line, slowly realizes with each scene the reality of the situation, and then begins to come to terms with it. By the end of the episode he knows he's f'ed and understands that it will take personal sacrifice to prevent this from being an even worse disaster.

JokerDanny

The faces being "sunburnt" isn't exaggerated for dramatic purposes, I mean if you look at cancer patients who have Radiotherapy they will have burns were the Radiotherapy is directed at, it would just depend on the amount of radiation and how long you are exposed to it for, which considering the firefighters worked for hours trying to put the fire out and how close they were to the exposed core definitely would've burnt them very badly. As for the outside of the body bleeding I believe that is exaggerated because radiation would cause internal bleeding a lot more than external.

Deathhead

No, i was reffering more to the guy holding the door, i don't think it would have happened as fast as it looks in the show, i completly agree with what you say and I'm not a doctor, i can be wrong here. What i know is that the guy was really affected and had to have skin grafts done periodically for years, but he is still alive, or at least it was 1-2 years ago when i last checked. And i really don't know about the forest, that again seemed fast to me, but I'm no botanist either :))

MKeiran92

What's really haunting is that if you type in YouTube "Chernobyl helicopter" you can watch the real footage of the crash. So sad.